Writer and filmmaker Miranda July says the popular imagination sort of drops off once a woman gets married and has kids. Her new novel All Fours turns that on its head – it's a story about an artist in her 40s who departs from her husband and child on a road trip that takes her to some very unexpected places. In today's episode, July speaks to NPR's Brittany Luse about the interviews she conducted with women going through perimenopause and menopause for this book, and the whisper network with her friends that fueled her protagonist's deep desire for something new.
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Tech Won't Save Us - How Cloud Giants Cement Their Power w/ Cecilia Rikap
Paris Marx is joined by Cecilia Rikap to discuss the ways Amazon, Microsoft, and Google gain power from companies becoming dependent on their cloud services and how generative AI exacerbates that problem.
Cecilia Rikap is an Associate Professor in Economics at University College London.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The Struggle to Get Aid to Gaza
Dispensing aid in the Gaza Strip is becoming increasingly difficult. No one knows this better than Hani. On a professional level, his employer, UNRWA—the main supplier of food, water, and shelter to Gazans over the last year—is banned from operating come 2025. On a personal note, his brother Mahmoud was killed in what Hani believes to have been a targeted strike while operating a soup kitchen for hungry neighbors.
Guest: Hani Almadhoun, senior director of philanthropy at UNRWA USA.
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Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova - Learning From Failure, Avoiding Regret, and Managing Risk with Restaurateur Henry Rich
Maria talks to her friend Henry Rich about how he’s managed to find success in one of the world’s riskiest industries: restaurants. Themes include learning from failure, accounting for ruin, and finding meaning at work.
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Andrew talks with Gare about the history of anarchist theory and praxis in modern day Ecuador, Columbia, Panama, and Venezuela.
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Cappelletti, Angel (2018). Anarchism in Latin America. AK Press.
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You’ve seen it in your science classroom, and there was probably a copy of it on the inside cover of your chemistry book. Maybe if you are a real nerd, you might even have your own personal copy.
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Learn more about the Periodic Table of the Elements and how it helped explain the natural world, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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CBS News Roundup - 01/01/2025 | World News Roundup Late Edition
New Year's carnage in New Orleans after 15 people were killed when the driver of a truck plowed into a crowd of revelers. Attacker was killed in shootout with police. Investigators believe attacker did NOT act alone. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper with tonight's World News Roundup.
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - CLASSIC: Church Burning, Metal, and Scandinavian ‘Satanists’
In the 1990s international media was captivated by a bizarre epidemic of church arsons in Norway, often attributing these crimes to so-called Satanic groups and individuals in Norway's black metal scene. This was wrapped up in the larger phenomenon of "Satanic Panic", a widespread fear that shadowy, devil-worshipping cabals secretly control human civilization. So is there any truth to the story? Tune in as the guys explore the true story of the infamous Scandinavian church burnings.
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Buckle up because we have so many Health and Human Services nominees to get into on this episode, and surprisingly nearly all of them are actually doctors of medicine!
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